As we reported in June, anti-racist grifter Robin DiAngelo is promoting her follow-up to “White Fragility,” “Nice Racism,” which is a deeper dive into “how progressive white people perpetuate racial harm.” This book is meant to shame the same white progressives who’ll line up to buy it to find out the ways in which they’re racist, even if it’s in a “nice” way. CNN called the book “hard-hitting”; on Substack, Matt Taibbi said the book was “a juggernaut of cringe.” “Reading Robin DiAngelo is like being strapped to an ice floe in a vast ocean while someone applies metronome hammer-strikes to the same spot on your temporal bone over and over,” he wrote.
DiAngelo is out promoting “Nice Racism,” and she did an interview with The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner. Some highlights:
Interview with Robin DiAngelo in The New Yorker. Says that white people can never be free of racism, but now she has learned to be better and might add an hour to a black person's life. https://t.co/uZRJI2zd6r pic.twitter.com/o98cjJGaLd
— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) July 14, 2021
Doing less harm “could translate to one hour longer on somebody’s life, because the chronic stress of racism … shortens their lives.”
DiAngelo criticizes white people for crying and also being silent.
Q: "Seems like maybe you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t"
A: "I would say in some ways you are damned if you do and damned if you don’t, and that applies to all of us" pic.twitter.com/jjZu37T4uF
— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) July 14, 2021
She took white women to task for crying at a black woman’s story because their tears were taking the focus off the black woman.
*cringes
— Carlito Mariategui (@88softailherita) July 14, 2021
Not arrogant at all
— G.H. Burns, CFA (@GHBurnsCFA) July 14, 2021
The paternalism here would put Kipling to shame.
— Law of Seven (@mtpollack) July 14, 2021
https://twitter.com/zeroedzeroes/status/1415403330948407297
Recommended
— Re (@koregeous) July 14, 2021
At least she acknowledges going for the gold standard – recurring revenue of a subscription-based service. Her grift does not lack foundational business principles.
Everyone needs continuing anti-racist education!
— Dr. Balki Bartokomous, PhD (@RoberoGorbachev) July 14, 2021
Yeah, a one-time workshop isn’t going to cut it. Glenn Greenwald weighs in:
It's genuinely unbelievable that a person this deranged not only wrote one of the best-selling and most influential books of 2020, but is paid $25k or more to give creepy two-hour sermons about race to companies and others. Read this thread. She's demented: https://t.co/pt4j5zTWGT
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 14, 2021
I wish I could find who said it to credit them, but it is true that what D'Angelo is evangelizing is not much different from many other new anti-racism stars. Many people feel more comfortable mocking her because she's white, so it sounds weirder, and they have more space to mock
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 14, 2021
People rag on Ibram X. Kendi pretty hard too, to give them credit.
I like that she’s white. I feel like I can really trust her and what she has to say.
— KingBuck (@5bucksays) July 14, 2021
She offers absolution for the sin of our age. People will pay big money for that, even if it's only a partial forgiveness. Then they can say, "At least I'm trying."
— Josh Steimle (@joshsteimle) July 14, 2021
Robin DiAngelo claims she is prolonging the life of black people by – talking to them.
Just let that sink.— Nox887 🌺🍀🕊️🧢⚽🏈 (@nox887) July 14, 2021
life will definitely feel longer if you have to sit thru one of her lectures
— Bob Hughes (@gethappy12374) July 14, 2021
Scientology for the woke
— I am Sam (@redheadavenger3) July 14, 2021
The 'sermons' make a lot more sense when you remember they're not meant to persuade people of anything, just check a box so the company can say it did its anti-racist due diligence if it's ever subjected to a discrimination lawsuit
— Big Worker (@Big_Worker) July 14, 2021
She acts as a red flag. Any company hiring her is infected with toxic wokeness.
— The Intersect (@mburm201) July 14, 2021
This is white fragility
— DjLoki – first and last always (@AlokRao) July 14, 2021
I don't know, she's just playing to the crowd and using what works at this point. Maybe I'd be doing the same if people were cutting me six figure checks.
— Daniel Lennon (@DanielL62113494) July 14, 2021
Funny how for every societal ailment there's a temporary salve but no cure. This crackhead acts like a lawyer – she sees problems everywhere, that only she has the answers to, at great cost, and only after she's able to wring every penny from a case.
— 🏴☠️Le Pirate🏴☠️ (@LeLibertine1975) July 14, 2021
She preaches a religion that offers original sin without any salvation or redemption
— prolasped_cranium (@greymatterkid) July 14, 2021
It must be hard to put into words the absolute chaos that must be her brain. It would be a good thing for humanity, if she stopped giving "workshops" all together. Really. Gardening could be a pretty decent alternative. Plus, it's relaxing.
— Hetti Puntin 🇮🇹 (@hpuntin) July 14, 2021
Remember that slide deck going around that listed “individuality” as a characteristic of white supremacy? DiAngelo explains:
Individualism cuts the person off from the very society that the concept of individualism is valued in. That’s the great irony, right? If we were in a more community-oriented or collective-oriented society, we wouldn’t value being an individual the way that we do. We have been conditioned to see that as the ideal, that every one of us is unique and special and different, and if you don’t know somebody specifically you can’t know anything about them.
There should be a ‘Curb your enthusiasm’ style sitcom about her. She would buy coffee and get into some kind of hyper-racialized anguished neurotic muddle where she offends everyone. End would be a clip from her seminar but delivered seinfeld stand up style with a laugh track.
— CoolPineapple ∞ (@CoolPineapple18) July 14, 2021
Lady, I just meant “do you want milk?”
— CoolPineapple ∞ (@CoolPineapple18) July 14, 2021
Related:
CNN calls Robin DiAngelo’s new book, ‘Nice Racism,’ ‘hard-hitting’; Matt Taibbi says it’s ‘a juggernaut of cringe’ https://t.co/lJeLBPfc4e
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 30, 2021
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